Coaching legend

Although they only defeated an inconspicuous Prague Sparta, the Blackburn media didn't care about that.

The last time they went to the Champions League, they only won the last insignificant game. In the six Champions League group matches, they won one, drew one and lost four. And the one win and one draw were in the last two rounds of the group stage, when the situation of the group stage had already become clear.

Therefore, all Blackburn fans were disappointed.

But this time it was different. Just after the expedition, they defeated Prague Sparta 3-0 in the first game.

Steven Yellen followed George and became more and more arrogant. In the "Blackburn Evening News", the headline was written as "This is the first step to conquer Europe!"

It praised Blackburn's performance throughout the article, and then in the final conclusion, it was written boldly "Europe, we are Blackburn!".

Even George felt embarrassed when he saw this. If it was an old giant, it would be qualified to shout in the media "Europe, we are back." But Blackburn is not even a scallion in European football.

The highest achievement in European football is the UEFA Cup that George led Blackburn to win last season.

However, after the first round of the group stage, the English media was still very happy. Because the three teams representing England all performed very well. Compared with Blackburn's 3-0, the other two group matches received more attention.

First of all, in Group G, Manchester United is worthy of being the strongest team in England. Facing Anderlecht from the Belgian First Division, they swept Anderlecht at home with a score of 5-1. And if Manchester United's defense had not been careless in the game, they would not have lost one of the goals. Of course, if Manchester United had not stopped at the end, they would not have scored two or three more goals.

Compared with Blackburn's 3-0, Manchester United's 5-1 is not much worse.

In addition to Manchester United's reputation in English and European football, this game has also received a lot of media coverage.

However, the reports on the Manchester United and Blackburn games combined are not as many as those on Arsenal. Arsenal's Group E is the death group in the first round of the Champions League. There are Juventus, Deportivo La Coruna, Arsenal, and Panathinaikos.

Panathinaikos is a recognized underdog. Everyone is paying attention to which of the three teams, Juventus, Deportivo La Coruna, and Arsenal, can stand out in the group stage.

And the first game, there is a hard-hitting focus game. Arsenal faces Juventus at home.

In terms of the European war results in recent years, Juventus is of course superior. Although Juventus has not won the Champions League in the past five years. But it has also entered the Champions League final for two consecutive years. Although it can only win the Champions League runner-up in the end, the Champions League results are already very good.

On the contrary, Arsenal's European record is much worse. At this time, Arsenal's European record is not ordinary. Last season, it was eliminated in the first round of the group stage and came to the UEFA Cup. Wenger is really not good at the Champions League at this time, and has not achieved any good results in the Champions League.

Therefore, although it was an away game, the Italian media was more optimistic about Juventus.

But after the results of the game came out, everyone was surprised. Because Arsenal defeated Juventus 4-3 at home.

After the game started, it turned out to be as expected. Trezeguet, who had just transferred from Monaco for 24 million euros this season, was in great form at Highbury, scoring two goals in a row to lead the home team Arsenal 2-0.

But the next game did not go as expected.

Henry, who has gradually integrated into Arsenal, used a hat trick to completely disarm Juventus. Henry's outstanding performance even made Juventus's top management regret it, especially Moggi who was watching the game on the spot. Such an outstanding Henry, was it a mistake to let him go back then?

Henry can be said to have completely penetrated the defense of the "old lady" Juventus. In the end, Ljungberg received Henry's pass and scored a goal.

Henry was truly majestic in this game, telling everyone with a hat trick. A super striker is about to be born.

Although Juventus scored a goal in the end, they still lost 3-4 away from home.

In this game that attracted the attention of all European football, Arsenal finally defeated Juventus 4-3. However, the recognized underdog Panathinaikos tied Deportivo La Coruna 1-1 at home. After the first round of games, Arsenal ranked first with three points, followed by Deportivo La Coruna and Panathinaikos with one point, while the strongest team Juventus had only zero points.

Arsenal's victory over Juventus made the English football world very happy.

The host of the BBC's Champions League program quoted George's words after the wonderful scenes of the game between Arsenal and Juventus. "The glory of Serie A has passed, and the European football world will soon usher in the Premier League time."

In the English football world, comments about the decline of Serie A are everywhere.

Of course, the Italian media, who have always been the boss, are certainly not satisfied with such comments in the English football world. They immediately refuted the English media, saying, "In the past ten years, apart from Manchester United's Champions League, what other trophies can you show off?"

Although the English football world has also won several UEFA Cups and UEFA Cups in the past ten years, Italy has won more. Moreover, Italian clubs have been absolutely strong in the three major European football cups in the past ten years.

This debate definitely affected more than just the English and Italian media, even the Spanish media got involved. They almost looked down on the quarrel between the two media, and then came over to separate the two quarrelers. Finally, they told the two media. The best league in Europe is now the Spanish La Liga, so stop quarreling.

George shook his head as he watched the quarrel.

Although many reporters also wanted to hear the views of George, the big mouth of English football. But George did not do as they wished. George is now very busy, and he has no time to care about such quarrels.

After playing the Champions League group match against Sparta Prague, George flew to London to challenge Chelsea away.

On September 16, it was drizzling.

And Chelsea is in a very bad situation now, not just a bad one. In the first five rounds of Chelsea's games, they won one, drew three, and lost one, accumulating six points. Of course, the most important problem is that Chelsea is currently facing internal and external troubles. Poor results don't matter, the most important thing is that there are huge internal conflicts.

The media also keeps an eye on Chelsea every day, and exposes the conflict between Chelsea coach Vialli and the bigwigs in the team every day.

George likes this kind of opponent the most. If all teams are like Manchester United and Arsenal, there are no big scandals in the team, and the fighting power is maintained very well. How can the game be played? George hopes to meet a team like Chelsea every day.

George's favorite thing is to kick someone when they are down, and it is George's usual method to take advantage of your illness to kill you.

Because the Champions League game has just been played, George has slightly changed some players. Especially Deco, who has basically not missed a game this season. George placed a combination of Miku, McAllister and Hargreaves in the midfield.

In the two wingers, Pires and Bellamy were used. Klose continued to be used on the front line.

The game entered a fast pace at the beginning, and Chelsea's current state is indeed very poor. Vialli can't command Chelsea's big players at all, and there seem to be many contradictions between the players.

Twelve minutes into the first half, Blackburn used the cooperation in the frontcourt, and Pires finally scored the first goal.

Seeing Pires score, Vialli just spread his hands on the court. His helpless expression was beyond words. At this time, the TV broadcast camera was firmly locked on Vialli on the sidelines. This Italian star, a famous coach who has also coached Chelsea well, was already helpless at this time.

Before the end of the first half, Klose received a pass from Miku, got rid of Desailly and scored the second goal of the game. It also scored Klose's third league goal this season.

Chelsea's slump did not change at all in the second half, while Blackburn continued to work hard. In the second half, Klose scored another goal and Miku added icing on the cake. In the end, Blackburn easily defeated Chelsea 4-0 at Stamford Bridge.

Although Vialli is a tough guy on the court, he is also a very graceful coach. But maybe he has too many troubles recently. After the game, he didn't say hello to George at all and left the court directly.

He didn't even attend the press conference after the game.

But no one cares. In the arena, they only care about results. Don't think that Vialli can be so arrogant now just because he was so powerful in the past. Even if it's Pele or Maradona, if they have poor results after coaching, they will be scolded.

When George returned to Blackburn the next day, he heard a piece of news. Chelsea Club announced that after discussions with Vialli, it was decided that Vialli would no longer be Chelsea's head coach from now on.

Anyway, it sounds very nice. They said thank you for Vialli's contribution to the club, but it all means that Chelsea Club fired Vialli.

In fact, there was news at the beginning of the season that Vialli would be fired. But Vialli still stayed in Chelsea, but no one expected Vialli to never settle the Chelsea locker room. One win, three draws and two losses in six rounds of games, such results are really not worthy of Chelsea.

So Vialli can only leave.

After Vialli was fired, no one sympathized with him, but the media and newspapers ridiculed him everywhere.

The Sun even gave George a nickname called "coach killer".

"When George was at Burnley, he forced Blackburn to change coaches twice. Because of the loss to George, the two Blackburn coaches had to resign."

"When he arrived at Blackburn, he kicked Burnley out of the English League One last season. Burnley coach Rodel was fired by the club immediately after that game. And Vialli was also tricked this time, losing 0-4 to Blackburn at home, completely ruining his future at Chelsea."

"George is really a coach killer. I don't know how many coaches will fall into his hands."

George looked at the newspaper and could only shake his head helplessly. Speaking of it, only Ray Shaft, who had just taken over as Blackburn coach, was really fired by George. The other coaches were already in a shaky position as coaches because of their poor performance. It was just that George kicked them down.